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Will Yogurtgate Destroy Nancy Pelosi As Democratic Corruption Charges Heat Up Capitol Cafeteria?

Thank God for Republican aides who were good enough to dig into frankly what is the most shocking example of corruption in the history of the U.S. Congress.
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Thank God for Republican aides who were good enough to take a moment off from rubber-stamping no-bid Iraq contracts and aiming to get corporate tax breaks for oil companies to dig into frankly what is the most shocking example of blatant corruption in the history of the United States Congress.

Here's what we know for sure, and more details are emerging hourly.

Speaker Pelosi as part of her "greening the Capitol" and I frankly am also in favor of keeping the buildings all white, but I'll let Rush fight that battle, so Nancy decided to make the food at the cafeteria a little healthier, a little lighter.

Let's stop right there.

Who does she think she is? With obesity rates soaring across the country, why should Capitol Hill be any different? And with Dennis Hastert leaving, our GPPC index is dipping like the Dow - that's Gross Pounds Per Congressman for you outside the beltway types.

Anyway, it gets worse.

Not only is the Speaker General forcing health food down the yaps of Congressmen and their staffers, she figured out a way to, and I quote, "line the pockets of...Gary Hirshberg, a significant player in Democratic politics."

Makes me sick.

I have seen this Hirshberg character at work, I once went to his house and off the record, the fridge in his kitchen is literally stocked with Stonyfield yogurt products, he calls them samples, but you and I know what they are - corruption, plain and simple.

With shame, I can tell you that he forced his graft on me and it was all I could do to carry the strawberry smoothies to my car.

Here's more of the story:

Republican aides have raised questions about why the cafeterias now stock Stonyfield Farm yogurt, speculating that the move would line the pockets of the company's CEO, Gary Hirshberg, a significant player in Democratic politics.

Can you imagine? They might be selling hundreds of those little yogurt cups a month, Gary personally pockets, you better be sitting down, as much as a penny a cup, my god, over the course of forty or fifty thousand years, he could literally make like $10,000 off this deal

My advice for Speaker Pelosi is to resign in shame,

As for you Mr. Hirshberg, get that yogurt classified as a bio-chemical weapon in the war on terror, and call those Republican aides back. That's where the serious coin is.

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